Simon Frankau's book reviews

I saw this a while ago, and was amused by it, and it's pretty
cheap, so I bought it in the end. It's a neat little hardback book -
very pretty and great for leaving around the office. In its way the
contents are surprisingly irrelevant. The contents are a short and
rather fun little essay from a fairly distinguished philosopher. The
basic idea is that the bullshitter differs from the liar in that a
liar respects and understands the truth, and deliberately subverts
it. For the bullshitter, truth or falsity is irrelevant and
uninteresting. Amusingly, the contents of this book could itself be
bullshit by this standard, since it's pretty irrelevant to the book as
a cool little object. So, the fact it's pretty good is a neat
bonus.